In Gentrification’s Shadow, a Campground for the Homeless in Brooklyn Posted on October 8, 2014 by Corey Kilgannon in The New York Times The cheerful blue tent looks perfectly bucolic pitched on a grassy hilltop. Except this green patch happens to be alongside the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn. The tent stands by a tricky turn where southbound drivers bearing left off the Gowanus to head onto ..Read More
Today’s Read: City Chips Away at Homeless Housing Costs Posted on October 8, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena Every night well over 13,000 families with more than 24,000 children are affected by homelessness in New York City. Many of them reside in apartments with deplorable conditions used as temporary shelter, known as “cluster-site” units, for which t ..Read More
City Chips Away at Homeless Housing Costs Posted on October 8, 2014 by Mirela Iverac in WNYC News Heinze, 37, has been homeless since she lost her rent subsidy two years ago. She stays in this apartment, for which the city pays $2,900 a month. The money goes to a non-profit provider who leases the apartment from a private landlord and is supposed to provid ..Read More
Thank You for Giving Kids a Head Start on the School Year! Posted on October 3, 2014 by Ruth Lindner As the summer came to a close, the Coalition for the Homeless was humbled by the enthusiastic support of so many businesses, organizations, schools and caring individuals who helped make the seventh annual Project: Back to School such a success. This year, ove ..Read More
Cyndi Lauper Helps Bring Apartments for Homeless LGBT Youths to The Bronx Posted on October 2, 2014 by Eddie Small in DNAinfo Homeless LGBT youths are getting a new place to stay in The Bronx. Grammy Award-winning singer Cyndi Lauper and nonprofit housing company West End Residences are teaming up to build the “True Colors” residences, a complex with 30 studio apartments ..Read More
Today’s Read: Cluster-Site Shelters Posted on October 2, 2014 The Coalition has long derided the use of informal and often dubious deals between the City and private landlords to provide emergency shelter for families. Begun in the last years of the Giuliani Administration and expanded during the Bloomberg Administrati ..Read More
How Private Companies Are Profiting From Homelessness in New York City Posted on October 1, 2014 by Ben Hattem in Vice News Call him M. He lives in Freedom House — the hotel-turned-homeless shelter on Manhattan’s West 95th Street, two blocks from a concert hall that the New York Times once dubbed a palace of performing arts. ..Read More
